*with a certain amount of skimming; it's book four of seven, over 800 pages long, and there are some storylines I just do not care about any more. /o\

WildthornThis was a YA f/f historical romance in which one party is sent to a mental asylum, and therefore invited comparisons to Fingersmith, which sadly made it seem not particularly good, when actually it was mostly perfectly fine. I did find it pretty unsubtle in its feminism, but this might be because I am a cranky old woman who has read lots of similar things already; someone with a fresher eye might like it more. It did also fall into the ableist trope of "I, a neurotypical person, do not belong in this horrible place, but eh all these neuroatypical people probably do I guess" a bit, and the end rang a bit classist to me. ...er, I did enjoy this more than I'm implying here! I liked the heroine a lot, and the romance was very sweet.

Signal to NoiseI really liked the milieu of this book, but I found the characters a bit too unlikeable for my taste, and I very much wanted more magic and far less romance.

Didn't finish: The Long War - Terry Pratchett and Steven BaxterI didn't actively dislike this, it was just quite slow and a bit boring, and slightly microaggressiony, and eventually I just asked myself "self, would we be happier if we stopped reading this book?", and we decided that we would, and so we did.

Short stories I enjoyed this month:Flying Magic (Stephanie Burgis): Delightful short story set in the Kat, Incorrigible universe, in which Kat has to deal with her own children. <3Fire Watch (Connie Willis): wonderful and also heartbreaking.Superior (Jessica Lack): v. enjoyable m/m romance, with superheroes.